{"id":1232,"date":"2010-07-02T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2010-07-02T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:59:11","slug":"friday-five-things-to-read-watch-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/02\/friday-five-things-to-read-watch-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five: Things to Read, Watch &#038; Share"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/postphotos\/5_small.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Five\" title=\"Five\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" align=\"right\" \/>Normally I reserve Fridays for my &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/maryrajotte.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/ozzy-osbourne-medical-miracle\/\">There&#39;s A Story In There Somewhere<\/a>&quot; post &#8211; but it&#39;s a long weekend. You shouldn&#39;t have to work. And neither should I!<\/p>\n<p>So, here are a few interesting reads around the interwebs to get you through the holiday (or weekend, if you are not located stateside or like me, already enjoyed our holiday yesterday).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newbedlam.com\/zine\/?p=391\" target=\"_blank\">1: The Horologist<\/a><br \/> Hankering for a little &quot;<span class=\"status-body\"><span class=\"status-content\"><span class=\"entry-content\">Victorian clockwork madness&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span>? Check out Katey&#39;s new piece in Vol.2 &#8211; Issue 2 of The New Bedlam Project<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/books.torontoist.com\/2010\/07\/small-press-profile-burning-effigys-dark-tomes\/\" target=\"_blank\">2. Burning Effigy<\/a><br \/> Toronto&#39;s small press Burning Effigy is featured on Torontoist. Great read &#8211; the passion of editors Monica S. Kuebler &amp; Jeff Cottrill are palpable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenking.com\/other\/stephens_empire\/\" target=\"_blank\">3. Help Build Stephen King&#39;s Empire<\/a><br \/> Stephen King wants you to help him build his empire! He&#39;s looking for photos of places, shops, and items that have names related to his books, stories and King himself. Check out the website for more details<\/p>\n<p> <u><strong>4. Haven<\/strong><\/u><br \/> I&#39;m looking forward to checking out Haven, the new series based on King&#39;s &quot;The Colorado Kid&quot;. And it was <a href=\"http:\/\/southshorenow.ca\/archives\/2010\/062210\/arts\/index001.php\" target=\"_blank\">filmed in Nova Scotia<\/a> (Canada for those not in-the-know). The show starts July 12 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showcase.ca\/shows\/showspage.aspx?Root_Title_Id=256989\" target=\"_blank\">Showcase in Canada<\/a> and on July 9 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syfy.com\/haven\/\" target=\"_blank\">SyFy<\/a> in the US<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-33703-Toronto-Writing-Examiner~y2010m6d30-Write-to-the-Canadian-Troops-for-Canada-Day\" target=\"_blank\">5. Honour the Troops<\/a><br \/> One of my articles this week was a call to fellow Canadians to write to their troops, either via message board or through the Share A Cup Campaign from Toronto EMS &amp; Tim Hortons. I decided to share it again here. Wherever you hail from, I hope you will do the same for your own armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>So, that&#39;s it! A little light reading, some fun stuff and a bit of patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 4th to all the Americans reading. 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